Can images from a user's photos library moved to the Hidden folder from a third party application?

Question

Photos Framework provides an API to move to folders. But, is there a way to change the status of an image to hidden, and thereby move it to the iOS Hidden folder and hiding it from the main photo gallery?

Answer 1

If you want to save some data privately so no other app could access it you probably need to save it into the app data container. This could be a /Documents folder for example. Take a look at FileManager class to work with file system.

Use this directory to store user-generated content. The contents of this directory can be made available to the user through file sharing; therefore, his directory should only contain files that you may wish to expose to the user. The contents of this directory are backed up by iTunes and iCloud.

File system documentation